the deputy foreign minister said he's 100% sure that assad will never, ever leave syria. lou: thank you very much. chief washington correspondent, and joining us now, fox news middle east and terror analyst, fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. gentlemen, thank you for being here. beginning with you, just received word that the president smoke with morsi today talking about the number of deaths and concern about the result of the demonstrations. this is now a region that seems to be of behaving in ways in which this administration could not have anticipated or did not a year ago, six months ago. your thoughts on what's happening now? >> well, ii's happening right now is a balance of force, of demonstrations between the morsi regime, which is still trying to assert itself, the gun to influence the army, but did not complete the job, so the army is not completely under the hands of morsi, but, on the other hand, a dynamic opposition uniting against morsi and has been early on the responsible for the uprising in egypt against mubarak, replaced with the br